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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: Orientalism Now, Part IV: The Latest Phase.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does the author describe Renan's linguistic investigations of Semitic taking place in Chapter 1?
(a) 1862.
(b) 1848.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1875.

2. When did Lord Cromer publish an article in the Edinburgh Review referring to Orientals as "subject races" (36)?
(a) April, 1901.
(b) September, 1908.
(c) January, 1908.
(d) March, 1919.

3. What name refers to the war between Egypt, Syria and Israel that mostly took place in the Sinai and the Golan Heights?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1889.
(c) 1989.
(d) 1973.

4. When did Reinhart Dozy die?
(a) 1883.
(b) 1896.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1903.

5. When did the battle of Lepanto take place?
(a) 1592.
(b) 1499.
(c) 1601.
(d) 1571.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom is the letter from T. E. Lawrence written in 1918 that is cited in Chapter 3?

2. When was Louis Lambert published?

3. Who is the author of Daniel Deronda?

4. Silvestre de Sacy's family were adherents to what Catholic theological movement?

5. In an excerpt from Renan's writing in Chapter 2, Renan states, "One sees that in all things the Semitic race appears to us to be an incomplete race, by virtue of its" what (149)?

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